For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.

It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.

It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.